Programmers and Managers: The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States
Programmers and Managers: The Routinization of Computer Programming in the United States
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
Information careers in the office of the future
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
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“Office of the Future” is a buzz term, but like many such terms, it sets a frame of mind and seduces by its easy enunciation. Often felt to be synonymous with “office automation,” by speaking the term we seem to be invoking the concept and we begin to see it, or its progenitors all about us. It's a common principle in public relations that uttering a slogan is tantamount to purchase of the product. In this paper, I'd like to examine six trends which I feel complicate the “Let There Be” attitude of market researchers, not from the supply side of the producers (there are ample reasons to believe that the supply of OOF-ing systems will at least not grow as dramatically as heretofore predicted 1) nor even from the demand side of potential users. Instead I wish to see whether or not existing, relatively long-term, trends in how offices are staffed and run might render OOF plans moot by changing the office as we know it (“office a.w.k.”) beyond recognition.